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Additional Greenwood Employee To Be Considered

GREENWOOD — The Greenwood City Council will consider adding a part-time employee to the finance department Monday.

At last month’s meeting, Councilman Jim Gossett asked for support to help the department of two, which includes Director Ann Eglinsdoerfer and a recent hire. He said he’d like to see a new employee work 30 hours a week.

“I am convinced there is a need there,” he said. “There are a lot more bank accounts and a lot more employees. It takes 2½ days every two weeks just to do the paperwork. This is over and above the other things that need to be done.”

The proposal was met with resistance.

“I’m still kind of apprehensive about how the money is going to be coming in this year,” Councilman A.C. Brown said. “I’d kind of like us to play it by ear and see how revenue comes in.”

Eglinsdoerfer said without the help, human resource work was “not getting done.”

“We do what we’re able to do, but not everything we need to be doing,” she said.

City leaders said Greenwood routinely gets reprimanded in annual audits for a lack of employees in the finance department. Eglinsdoerfer said it will take two additional full-time employees to hit the audit mark.